[The entire novel is complete. Thank you to all the readers who supported the official release. My ongoing novel, Beneath Splendid Robes, is now available. Please add it to your library.]
Blurb:
Qiu Wu is the head palace maid of Yufang Hall. Everyone who sees her respectfully calls her "Auntie Qiu," because the Ninth Prince she serves enjoys the Crown Prince's favor.
Every few days, the Crown Prince summons her to the Eastern Palace to ask about the Ninth Prince's daily life, drawing the admiration and envy of countless people.
No one knows that every time Qiu Wu enters the Eastern Palace, she is the one being "questioned" on the bed. She sees all too clearly the Crown Prince's unrestrained behavior in private, so cold and decisive in public.
Qiu Wu had also developed feelings she should not have had.
As they lay together, whispering to each other, the Crown Prince praised her name for sounding lovely.
Her heart filled with joy, and she wanted to tell him that Qiu Wu meant autumn grass. Though it withered and faded, it could come to life again the following spring. Her family had hoped she would live on with resilience, so they had given her that name.
But the young Crown Prince pointed at the autumn scene painted on the screen beside the bed and said, "People admire this painting for its beauty, its red maples, its broken bridge, but no one ever notices the autumn grass hidden among them. Wu'er, you are like the grass in this screen. Hidden at my side, you are seen only by me, and only I can see you."
Qiu Wu's heart turned cold, and she swallowed the words she had been about to say.
The autumn grass outside could still sway in the wind, but the grass in this painted screen was firmly pinned in place, unable to move.
The Crown Prince thought her birth lowly. He regarded her as nothing more than a pleasing plaything to keep hidden away for himself.
She crushed the hazy feelings that had just begun to sprout in her heart and told herself to endure a little longer. Once the Ninth Prince established his own household, she would ask him to let her leave, then marry a suitable man and live happily ever after.
Just when she was about to make it through, and had even chosen the man she loved, she turned and saw gloom flash across the Crown Prince's usually careless face.
Notes:
1. The entire story is set in a fictional world, with lots of liberties and invented details. Don't overthink them.
2. One-on-one romance, both leads have no prior partners, happy ending. The plot is melodramatic and cliched, and the heroine runs away without taking a child.
3. The male lead is not a good person and is not a noble, upright hero.
Blurb for the new novel, Beneath Splendid Robes:
Yun Ying is a maid in a marquis's household. She is charming and alluring, with a vivid, graceful beauty. The unmarried young marquis takes a fancy to her, gets carried away after drinking, and gets her pregnant, making her unwelcome to the woman who is to become his wife.
It's said that the bride-to-be comes from an eminent family and won't tolerate the slightest offense. To please her, the young marquis even plans to kill Yun Ying and keep the child.
With nowhere else to turn, Yun Ying seeks help from the Marchioness. As it happens, a distinguished guest is visiting in secret that day, and the Marchioness and the young marquis are both in the main hall entertaining the guest.
Seeing Yun Ying barge in unannounced, the Marchioness turns pale with fright, afraid of offending the guest, and orders someone to throw her out.
But the guest stops them.
Holding a bone fan, the noble leans down from above and lifts Yun Ying's chin, studying her plump, radiant face.
The guest asks, "Have you already given birth once?"
Blushing, Yun Ying nods, not daring to lie. "My baby just turned a hundred days old."
The guest asks again, "Did you nurse the child yourself?"
Yun Ying nods once more.
The guest smiles, eyes settling on her full, lustrous figure, and says softly, "If you want to live, come with me to the palace."
Notes:
The heroine begins her palace career as a wet nurse. This is not a palace-intrigue story. There is no single fixed male lead, only male leads for different stages, around four or five in total.
Theme: Strive to live.
Read the previous chapter: In modern times you are still engaging in robbery and robbery
Look at this chapter: Falling in love has no status, and the ending is on the edge of darkness
I'm still a pervert when I come back, it's you as expected
I'm sorry for Gouzi. In the last chapter, I said that he was also good at taking things by force in modern times. Unexpectedly, it was reversed in this chapter. He turned out to be a big dog who can't see people.
Hey hey hey, in this life, Qiuqiu treats dogs like ducks, yes, yes, she runs away after she feels good, she loves herself the most, who cares, follow the path of a scumbag and leave the scumbag with nowhere to go, this is the real modern woman, Oli.
It turns out that the heroine is ruthless when she pulls out her vagina, so good! Love is important, but learning is even more important!
Hee hee hee hee, the humble dog in the underground & the sober female goose in the world
Hahahahahahahahaha, the female goose is the one who holds the sovereignty in modern times, and the goose is the underground goose.
The modern version is more interesting than the ancient version
I like A Wu who is so sober. Gouzi has never told A Wu what he thinks. Why do you think A Wu will tell him what she thinks?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha crying and asking for a name x
Sinking (Female Disguised as a Man)
Shackles
She Is Thirty This Year
I Ascended After Becoming a Substitute
On the Road
The Ungrateful Wretch
One Thousand and One Nights
You're Just a Tool, That's All [Showbiz]
Spring Comes Again
Her in the Mortal World
With the Emperor's Uncle
After We Swapped Bodies, I Fight for Favor Every Day
Read the previous chapter: In modern times you are still engaging in robbery and robbery Look at this chapter: Falling in love has no status, and the ending is on the edge of darkness
I'm still a pervert when I come back, it's you as expected
I'm sorry for Gouzi. In the last chapter, I said that he was also good at taking things by force in modern times. Unexpectedly, it was reversed in this chapter. He turned out to be a big dog who can't see people.
Hey hey hey, in this life, Qiuqiu treats dogs like ducks, yes, yes, she runs away after she feels good, she loves herself the most, who cares, follow the path of a scumbag and leave the scumbag with nowhere to go, this is the real modern woman, Oli.
It turns out that the heroine is ruthless when she pulls out her vagina, so good! Love is important, but learning is even more important!
Hee hee hee hee, the humble dog in the underground & the sober female goose in the world
Hahahahahahahahaha, the female goose is the one who holds the sovereignty in modern times, and the goose is the underground goose.
The modern version is more interesting than the ancient version
I like A Wu who is so sober. Gouzi has never told A Wu what he thinks. Why do you think A Wu will tell him what she thinks?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha crying and asking for a name x